A Research Project On Gun Violence

Around 32,000 of those result in death and 71,000 suffer injuries. On average 2,829 kids killed (age 0-19) every year. An average of 86 people die everyday from gun violence in America. (Brady Campaign, n.d.). The point I’m trying to get across is that gun violence is an everyday occurrence in America, but too many of these cases involve individuals with mental disorders and/or diseases. A 2001 study looked specifically at 34 adolescent mass murderers, all male. 70 percent were described as a loner. 61.5 percent had problems with substance abuse. 48 percent had preoccupations with weapons. 43.5 percent had been victims of bullying. (Metzl & MacLeish,

Another consideration is whether firearm violence is more a matter of harm to self or others. Suicides account for 61 % of all firearm fatalities in the United States in 2010 as recorded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (qtd. In Bowen, Injury 2015). In spite of such evidence, Gallup polling data from 2013 showed that 48 % of adult Americans blame the mental health system a great deal for mass shootings in the United States, whereas fewer 40 % blame easy access to guns; an inadequate mental health system is perceived as the top cause of mass shootings (qtd. In Bowen, Saad 2013).

The mental health system in The United States is flawed and needs serious reform. Many of the mentally ill are failing to seek the help that they need and deserve in a country like the U.S is baffling and must be reassessed. The system causes a rise in gun violence and more specifically, mass shootings. There are many factors that need to be taken into consideration when approaching mental disorders and their correlation with mass shootings. Things such as type of mental disorder, the widespread diagnosis in the US, masculinity in men, and gun laws themselves. This research was done through a series of articles, interviews, and books. Mental disorders need to be taken largely into consideration when trying to find a cause for a shooting, and

Every year more than 20,000 children, as well as a youth under the age of 20 years, face deaths and in other case injured by firearms in the US. The fact that guns are lethal, as well as the fact that there is ease of access to the guns by the young people, is the main explanation why firearms are the second cause of deaths among young people between 10 and 19 years. Most of these deaths are homicides while suicides account for approximately one-third of the deaths by gun among the young people, and unintentional shootings account for approximately 7% of the deaths. Among the homicides that have perpetrated by the young people in their school include the 2012-gun attack at Sandy Elementary where 28 people at the school killed. In the year 1927 in the bath school, there were 45 murders whereby the majority of the victims were children. At Virginia Tech, a gunman killed 33 victims in the year 2007 (Swanson, et al. 361-376).

Suicide was by far the greatest number of deaths from firearms. According to the CDC of the total 33,594 deaths from firearms in 2014 over 64% of the deaths from firearms were a result of suicide (Kochanek, Murphy, Xu, Tejada-Vera 2014). While it is tragic to know that means the other 36% were killed by having a firearm turned on them it still shows that the dangers of firearms lies mainly in the hands of someone who has a mental illness. Even if we assume all other deaths were from people who had no form of mental illness that is over 20,000 people who if mental illness did not exist or even just better treated, would still be alive today. In order to treat mental illness however, we must be able to distinguish what is and is not a mental illness. For the purpose of this article a mental illness is; any disease or disorder that is clinically recognized and causes some sort of distress. Approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.—43.8 million, or 18.5%—experiences mental illness in a given year (Martinelli., Binney, & Kaye 2014). Considering that most gun deaths are caused by suicide, it is understandable to assume that these people were

According to the article a three year old girl was faitily shot and killed in d.c in a second-floor apartment at Benning Terrace by a child playing with a gun. D.C police said a child had a gun in his hands and fired it, turning a innocent summer time play into tragedy when a bullet struck 3 year old Dallas cox in the chest. The police also said we have no reason to belive that it is anything other than an accident, so what we are looking at is how the gun got into the house.

There could be many reasons that are causing the violence in the city of Milwaukee, such as, not enough jobs, many teens dropping out of school at a young age, and life is just too compacted for some. Another serious problem could be that, people are having problems verbally communicating with individuals that they have a problem with.

There have been 215 terrifying school shootings of innocents across America since 2013. These tragic happenings have left the nation in shock and horror, opening our eyes to the reality of the growing problem of gun violence. There are more than 310 million guns in circulation in America, 90 guns for every 100 people (Gun Violence: Facts and Statistics), and on average 93 American people are killed by gun every day (centers for disease control). Gun violence has been increasing in past years, however, improved education and gun regulation can resolve this.

This book is appropriate for my research based on "authority" for I can verify the authors’ qualification by acknowledging some of the facts mentioning about how many suicides are gun related. Plus, it is a comprehensive collection of rigorous studies in which evidence-based research on how to reduce gun violence in America is provided. The authors further add an impassive and scientific approach to the topical issue of violence and gun

(2002), they examined the association between the rate of violent death among 5-14 year olds from the 50 states from 1988-1997, and the availability of firearms corresponding to the rates of suicide, homicide, and unintentional firearm deaths among this group of individuals in each state (Miller et al., 2002). To determine the association between the two variables, they collected the number of suicides from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality files (Miller et al., 2002). The files suggested that deaths caused by undetermined intentions constituted less than 3% of all firearm deaths in this population (Miller et al., 2002). More specifically, they found a positive and statistically significant association between gun availability and state level rates of unintentional firearm deaths, homicides, firearm homicides, suicides, and firearm suicides among children at the state level (Miller et al., 2002). Meanwhile, at the regional level, this trend is present regardless of the proxy chosen to run through a test (Miller et al., 2002). Hence, the authors argued that the association between gun availability and violent deaths among youths remained significant. Moreover, this association indicated that firearm availability will increase the likelihood of unwanted deaths among

According to the article the reason why there is no federally funded research studies on “Gun Violence” is because Congress was unmoved and has continued to withhold funding. An example, is whe President Obama called for the CDC, (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), to conduct research on the causes of gun violence and how to prevent it after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.

Guns are an evil tool that can end humanity. Most people are dying due to gun violence. Individuals don’t feel safe anymore. Gun can easily be purchased. Therefore, the U.S should put more restrictions on gun ownership and use for people's safety.

Since the turn of the 21st century the United States, a nation that prides itself on gun ownership, has seen a steady rise of prolific instances of gun related violence, far higher than any first world nation. From the year Whether it be a homicide or suicide, if one turned on the local news station or CNN, it is now but assured that at least one story would pertain to gun violence. To better put in context, from 2003 to 2012, there have been 313,045 deaths directly related to guns (Firearm violence). In contrast Switzerland, another first world nation, has seen very little gun related violence despite boasting some of the highest rates of gun ownership. This begs the question, “Why has the United States been plagued by gun violence but not

A literature review of gun violence prevention is being undergone as part of this submittal. This research is important because gun violence has been a plague in the United States and the United Kingdom, among other places, for much of the recent century or two. This violence takes on two major forms. The first is general gun violence that is perpetrated as part of gang violence, robberies, burglaries, crimes of passion or spite and so forth. The other major form, which is both quite uncommon but very poignant and affecting when it happens, are school and other mass shootings like Columbine and the very recent Sandy Hook. There have been a decent amount of other school shootings and work shootings, but those are far and away the most notorious. Both were effected by very mentally ill teenagers or young adults that decide to go out in a bloody and perverted blaze of glory before they took their own life.

This picture is very disturbing because these are young kids drown to guns and it makes me concern because they are avoiding education and are involved in crimes. The kids that are drawn to these are kids that lost their guardians and are avoiding education and going to school.